I read Wikipedia and it says a majority of Americans actually support “deporting all ‘illegal immigrants’”. Is this actually true?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_in_the_second_presidency_of_Donald_Trump
At the time of his first campaign, approximately one-third of Americans supported the idea – but by the start of his second term, eight years later, public opinion had undergone a shift, with a majority of Americans believing all illegal immigrants should be deported. By April 2025, slightly over half of Americans felt the level of deportations went “too far”.
(Of course, people say it went “too far” after they already voted this fucker into office.)
The Source Wikipedia Cited: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/01/23/cnns_enten_there_has_been_a_massive_shift_on_immigration_the_majority_of_americans_believe_illegals_should_be_deported.html
My brother who is a legal immigrant and naturalized citizen, actually voted harris in 2024, but doesn’t seem to be bothered by the mass deportations, even though he hates trump.
It this actually a common sentinment amongst Americans?
They’re often also paying the same payroll taxes as citizens, just with false documents. And then not being able to take advantage of many of the services those payroll taxes provide for.
The documents often aren’t fake, otherwise they wouldn’t be getting tracked down by their names. Many come to the U.S. on a student visa or work visa or such. And the student gets a job while working to pay for food/life while they are here. When they are done with school or drop out, they are still working. Which makes them now an illegal immigrant, but they still want food the next day, they already have a residence they were staying at and a job they were working, and the taxes they were paying into. They just can’t collect social security and such because they can’t submit paperwork and such when they are no longer legally here.
For instance Musk moved to the U.S. around 1992, on a student Visa. He did not become a Citizen until 2002. Yet he sold his company to eBay in 2002 (established in 1995). His Visa would have been long expired as he stopped going to school in 1997 supposedly. So 5 out of the 7 years he established growing his company within the U.S. he would have been considered an illegal immigrant. This is something he admitted to on broadcasts before.
Our records show the majority of immigrants who come into the U.S. become illegal after their Visa’s or other legal entry methods expire. What they are doing now is systematically reducing the population that currently pays taxes and reducing our workforce while tariffing other countries which will reduce imports overall by making them more costly. Every part of it appears to want to shrink/halt the economic growth of the U.S. The alternative reasons could be that they are anti capitalism, or simply just don’t like people who are different.
Yes! Thank you for that reminder and clarification/correction!
I wish I could upvote this more. Even field workers are required to provide documents to get a job. They also receive paper checks, with taxes taken out, just like the rest of us. So they’re actually paying into a system they can’t use.